Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "based on true story"

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The First Great Train Robbery [The Great Train Robbery] *** (1978, Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down) – Classic Movie Review 9,502

All aboard the London to Folkestone express for Michael Crichton’s 1979 Victorian crime caper, with Sean Connery as the cracksman William Pierce and Donald Sutherland as the safe-cracker Agar. ‘Steal from a moving train? Whoever […]

Mar, 13

Escape from Pretoria **** (2020, Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Nathan Page) – Movie Review 

Co-writer/ director Francis Annan’s real-life thriller Escape from Pretoria is a good old-fashioned prison escape story, with a commendably intense and non-starry performance by Daniel Radcliffe as a Seventies jailed ANC activist who makes a huge […]

Mar, 06

America America **** (1963 Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam) – Classic Movie Review 9401

Elia Kazan was Oscar-nominated as writer, producer (Best Picture) and director for this uplifting, if seemingly endless chunk of his own family biography about a young Anatolian Greek, living in the oppressions of Turkey more […]

Feb, 19

Ford v Ferrari [Le Mans 66] *** (2019, Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas, Caitriona Balfe, Noah Jupe) – Movie Review

Matt Damon and Christian Bale do very well indeed in reliable, stalwart star turns as gifted American car designer Carroll Shelby and brilliant British driver Ken Miles, who battle to build a revolutionary racing car […]

Nov, 24

Greenfingers **** (2000, Clive Owen, Helen Mirren, David Kelly, Warren Clarke, Danny Dyer, Adam Fogerty, Lucy Punch) – Classic Movie Review 8874

Writer-director Joel Hershman’s Greenfingers stars Clive Owen as prisoner Colin Briggs, who is moved to an open jail, where his friendship with a dying Irish convict, Fergus Wilks (David Kelly), leads to a passion for […]

Aug, 31

Yours, Mine and Ours *** (1968, Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 8638

Director Melville Shavelson’s 1968 family film Yours, Mine and Ours is the true-story based comedy in which widowed dad of 10 children Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda) weds widowed mother of eight kids, Helen North Beardsley […]

Jun, 25

The White Crow **** (2018, Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann) – Movie Review

Whether emoting or dancing, Oleg Ivenko is mesmerising as Rudolf Nureyev in director Ralph Fiennes’s intense, multi-layered story of the Russian dancer’s defection to the West. How he dances! He hardly looks like Nureyev, really, […]

Apr, 02

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